Scientists pivot to COVID-19 research, hoping for quick results to deal with pandemic
May 19, 2020
Seven new COVID-19 research projects at UC Berkeley can turn up new diagnostics and potential treatments for COVID-19 within months.
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Campus lab takes COVID-19 testing to utility workers, underserved
May 13, 2020
The COVID-19 pop up lab started by Jennifer Doudna and other scientists from UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) has now branched out to assessing a broader range of people potentially exposed to the coronavirus, including front-line responders who are at risk of infection daily.
‘Liquid gold’: UC Berkeley lab makes free hand sanitizer for the needy
April 29, 2020
UC Berkeley faculty Robert Tjian and Xavier Darzacq encourage labs in other UC Berkeley buildings to start producing sanitizer for places in the East Bay and San Francisco that serve populations whose safety has been largely ignored as the COVID-19 pandemic rips through the state.
Urban slums are uniquely vulnerable to COVID-19. Here’s how to help
April 27, 2020
In a new report published in the Journal of Urban Health, public health experts and epidemiologists, including UC Berkeley Dr. Lee Riley, provide eight urgent recommendations for reducing the impact of COVID-19 on people living in poverty.
Chatting-in-place featuring Britt Glaunsinger
April 27, 2020
In this virtual Q&A with Science at Cal, professor Britt Glaunsinger explains how viruses spread in the body.
UC Berkeley scientists spin up a robotic COVID-19 testing lab
March 30, 2020
Scientists at UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) are creating a diagnostic lab with the capability to process more than 1,000 patient samples per day.
New technique ‘prints’ cells to create diverse biological environments
March 18, 2020
UC Berkeley researchers, including David Schaffer and Lydia Sohn, have created a new technique that utilizes photolithography and programmable DNA to rapidly “print” two-dimensional arrays of cells and proteins that mimic a variety of cellular environments in the body.
Huge bacteria-eating viruses narrow gap between life and non-life
February 12, 2020
UC Berkeley researchers and collaborators, including Jennifer Doudna and Jamie Cate, have discovered hundreds of unusually large, bacteria-killing viruses with capabilities normally associated with living organisms.